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Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel The Echo Maker won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction.
From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
May 1, 2024 · The Overstory - Richard Powers. Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. New York Times Bestseller. A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, and Amazon Best Book of the Year. Now Available in Paperback.
Oct 29, 2021 · For more than 35 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers has been writing novels that reflect his passion for science, music, technology and our relationship with the natural world.
Richard Powers has 355 books on Goodreads with 841397 ratings. Richard Powers’s most popular book is The Overstory.
Biography. Excerpted from Understanding Richard Powers by Joseph Dewey. Powers’s characters themselves shift between the impulse to connect and its inevitable crash and burn; between the Emersonian urge to embrace the difficult ad-lib of the world and the Dickinsonesque need to recoil from its evident bruising into the supple sanctuary of the ...
Sep 22, 2021 · NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with novelist Richard Powers about his new book, Bewilderment, about a widowed father and his son trying to make sense of the world.
Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. His book The Overstory won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains. Librarian note: There is more than one author with this name in the Goodreads database.
The Overstory is a novel by Richard Powers published in 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company. It is Powers' twelfth novel. The book is about nine Americans whose unique life experiences with trees bring them together to address the destruction of forests.
With its soaring descriptions of the natural world, its tantalizing visions of life beyond and its account of a father and son's ferocious love, Bewilderment marks Richard Powers's most intimate and moving novel.
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